Encore: Macy Gray joins host Talia Schlanger

Macy Gray’s 1999 hit song “I Try” made her into a massive star and Grammy award-winner. But those who have followed her career know that some of her best songs arrived in the twenty years since. She’s consistently grown, changed, and reinvented herself with new music, and her latest album, Ruby, is proof. Hear the amazing story of how her whole career almost never happened; she was a single mom of three when she got her big break. Plus, she performs songs with her band.

*Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill” Hounds of Love
Macy Gray “Buddha” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Macy Gray “Hey Young World, Pt. 2” the id
Aretha Franklin “Don’t Play The Song” Spirit In The Dark
Macy Gray “Shenanigans” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Macy Gray “White Man” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Macy Gray “I Try” On How Life Is
Macy Gray “Over You” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
The Record Company “Off The Ground” Give It Back To You
Michaela Anne “Run Away With Me” Desert Dove
Natalie Merchant “Just Can’t Last” Mother Land

Hour Two
*Taylor Swift “exile (featuring bon iver)” folklore
Arlo Parks “Black Dog” Black Dog (single)
The Lumineers “Gloria” III
Future Islands “For Sure” As Long As You Are
The Cure “Lovesong” Disintegration
Ray LaMontagne “Strong Enough” Monovision
Bonnie Raitt “Give It Up Or Let Me Go” Give It Up
The War and Treaty “Five More Minutes” Hearts Town
Nicole Atkins “Mind Eraser” Italian Ice
Low Cut Connie “Private Lives” Private Lives
Portugal The Man “Tomorrow” At Home With The Kids
The Go-Go’s “Club Zero” Club Zero (single)
The Smiths “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” The Queen Is Dead
Jane’s Addiction “Jane Says” Nothing’s Shocking

*Optional Song